THE RATINGS WAR: 60Mins2 and sensationalism

[irishFS1921]

http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/402079|top|05-11-2004::20:25|reuters.html

since aparantly all US troops are supposed to like the iraqis when one doesn't CBS' "60 Minutes II" is there to pile on the ratings bandwagon.

"I hate it here," she said on the tape. "I want to come home. I want to be a civilian again. We actually shot two prisoners today. One got shot in the chest for swinging a pole against our people on the feed team. One got shot in the arm. We don't know if the one we shot in the chest is dead yet."

someone makes a wrong decision, gets stuck in the wrong job/wrong place and this is news?

[ratdog]

You may want to fix your link.

[irishFS1921]

crap, i dunno why that link is trashed, but i'll try and save this thread,
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/12/iraq/main616921.shtml
this is from the lynddie england interview, talk about trying to get out of jail, what a total champion :rolleyes:

"To all of us who have been charged, we all agree that we don't feel like we were doing things that we weren't supposed to, because we were told to do them. We think everything was justified, because we were instructed to do this and to do that," England said.

i forgot, blissful ignorance and not standing up for yourself is a defense now?